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- A Magna Carta for Children?
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Hamlyn Trust
- The Hamlyn Lectures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Is it Wrong to Think of Children as Human Beings?
- Part II Even Lawyers Were Children Once
- 3 The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Principles
- 4 The Convention: Norms and Themes
- 5 Enforcing Children’s Rights
- 6 Criticisms of the Convention
- 7 Beyond the Convention
- 8 Interlude: What We Can Learn from the Sociology of Childhood
- 9 Childhoods and Rights
- 10 Regional Children’s Rights
- 11 Child-Friendly Justice
- 12 The World Twenty-Five Years On: New Issues and Responses
- Part III A Magna Carta for Children
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - Child-Friendly Justice
from Part II - Even Lawyers Were Children Once
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Hamlyn Trust
- The Hamlyn Lectures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Is it Wrong to Think of Children as Human Beings?
- Part II Even Lawyers Were Children Once
- 3 The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Principles
- 4 The Convention: Norms and Themes
- 5 Enforcing Children’s Rights
- 6 Criticisms of the Convention
- 7 Beyond the Convention
- 8 Interlude: What We Can Learn from the Sociology of Childhood
- 9 Childhoods and Rights
- 10 Regional Children’s Rights
- 11 Child-Friendly Justice
- 12 The World Twenty-Five Years On: New Issues and Responses
- Part III A Magna Carta for Children
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Although it has only become a theme of children’s rights very recently, child-friendly justice has motivated the movement for children’s rights since the emergence of the child-saving movement in the mid-1880s: thus, there developed an institutional structure to target juvenile crime, the juvenile court in 1908, approved schools, borstal. It was not until 1907 that Parliament recognised the concept and value of probation (a terse summary of these developments can be found in Freeman 1983: 66–9). Most discussion even today centres on making criminal justice child-friendly, but there are now similar concerns in family dispute processes and elsewhere. In Wales there is even discussion of a ‘play-friendly’ Wales (Welsh Government, 2012).
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- A Magna Carta for Children?Rethinking Children's Rights, pp. 282 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020